Chevron Corporation today welcomed Australian Commonwealth Government approval by the Federal Environment Minister, the Hon. Tony Burke, MP, for its Wheatstone Project in Western Australia. George Kirkland, vice chairman, Chevron Corporation, said, “We welcome the Australian federal government’s sup
MEO Australia Limited advises that Petrobras International Braspetro BV (Petrobras) has provided notice to the WA-360-P Joint Venture participants today that it intends to withdraw from the Permit effective from the end of the current Permit year. While MEO has identified a significant lead in WA-36
Northern Offshore, Ltd. today announced that its subsidiary, Jet Drilling (S) Pte. Ltd. received a Letter of Award from Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (“ONGC”) for its semisubmersible Energy Driller for work offshore India. The term of the contract is for three years with initial operations
Marine Well Containment Company (MWCC) has announced the delivery of an integral component to its expanded containment system, a new Aframax tanker. Named “Eagle Texas” in a recent ceremony in Takamatsu, Japan, the tanker will be operated by AET Tanker Holdings. The “Eagle Texas” will soon undergo e
Statoil, together with partners Petoro AS, Det norske oljeselskap ASA and Lundin Norway AS, has drilled the Aldous Major North prospect (PL 265) in the North Sea. Samples taken from well 16/2-9S, drilled by the rig Transocean Leader, have proved a column of oil of up to 8 metres in formations dating
Petrobras has confirmed the presence of oil and gas accumulations in the ultra deep waters of the Sergipe-Alagoas basin, after completing a lined well formation test in the BM-SEAL-11 concession in Block SEAL-M-426. This is the first exploratory project in ultradeep waters on the Sergipe state side
Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world’s biggest shipyard, today clinched a USD 530 million order to build new deepwater drillships for Noble Drilling Holding, a leading offshore drilling contractor for the oil and gas industry. The order is the second of two options Noble Drilling Holding exercised fr
Coastal Energy Company announces the successful results of the Bua Ban North A-06 well and provides an operations update. The Bua Ban North A-06 well was drilled to a total depth of 5,950 feet TVD. The well encountered 63 feet of net pay in the Miocene with average porosity of 28 percent. The A-06 w
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan described offshore gas drilling by estranged ally Israel and Cyprus as “madness” on Wednesday, raising… By Jonathon Burch (Reuters) [mappress] Source:Reuters ,September 21, 2011;
BGP announced the launching of a brand new 3D, 12 streamer seismic vessel, R/V BGP Prospector, at SEKWANG HEAVY INDUSTRY in Korea on 2 September 2011. This vessel is built specifically for the high-end 3D marine seismic market with towing capacity of 12 streamers each at 8,000m long with 100m stream
Fairstar Heavy Transport N.V. (FAIR) reports the 50,000 DWT semi-submersible vessel FORTE was floated away from the flooded dry-dock facility in Qidong, China on schedule, September 18th 2011. Willem Out, Chief Operating Officer of Fairstar, reported from Qidong “the FORTE was a magnificent sight as
ABB in the UK has won an order from Transocean Nigeria to conduct a major service of the electrical generation sets on its 46,000 ton drillship GSF Jack Ryan. Stephen Colman, ABB’s Account Manager for Marine and Cranes, says: “We have a strong relationship with Transocean and conducted an electrical
Indonesia’s oil and gas regulator BPMigas said on Wednesday Italian energy firm ENI’s gas project in Jangkrik Block, in the Muara Bakau… Reporting by Andjarsari Paramaditha; Editing by Ramthan Hussain (Reuters) [mappress] Source:Reuters ,September 21, 2011;
During the 2010 BP/Deepwater Horizon Gulf oil spill, an estimated one of every 20 barrels of spilled oil was deliberately burned off to reduce the size of surface oil slicks and minimize impacts of oil on sensitive shoreline ecosystems and marine life. In response to the spill, NOAA quickly redirect
